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At Denville Medical, your licensed physical therapist's goal is to maximize your body's structure and increase its overall function for long-term health. To accomplish this, our physical therapists combine traditional and innovative techniques focused on increasing muscle strength and improving the body's range of motion. Our goal is to discover the root cause of your pain or mobility problems. That way, we can address the true reason why you need physical therapy, and work towards achieving long-lasting relief.
Of course, we understand that every patient is different. Your doctor can provide expert care in an encouraging environment by creating a customized treatment plan for you using modern, evidence-based research.
Some common reasons why patients need physical therapy at Denville Medical include:
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Sports Injuries Whether you are on the varsity team of your high school football team or a professional athlete, sports injuries are serious business. Our doctors and physical therapists will develop a plan to help you heal properly, so you can get back in the game sooner rather than later.
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Pre and Post Operation With decades of combined experience, our physical therapy experts know that there is a time for gentle healing and a time for aggressive physical rehab. Whether you are scheduled for surgery or have recently been released from the hospital, our therapists are here to help you recover, one step at a time.
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Neurological Issues At Denville Medical, we treat much more than sports-based injuries. Whether you're suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, or a vestibular problem, our therapists are trained and certified to help you regain your body's optimal functionality.
Life has a habit of throwing us curveballs. Sure, some surprises only hurt your bank account, like expenses around the home. But more serious incidents, like car wrecks, can inflict physical injuries causing long-term pain. Injury-related problems like neck and back pain affect many Americans daily. Even worse, many hardworking people turn to addictive pain medication and invasive surgeries for relief, only to find themselves deeper in a hole.
If you're in chronic pain or suffer from range of motion problems, you should know that options are available for safer, more effective pain relief. One of the most commonly used solutions is physical therapy. The main goal of physical therapy is to maximize your body's mobility and increase overall function. In order to accomplish this, physical therapy techniques focus on improving range of motion and building muscle strength.
Physical therapy helps people of all ages with illnesses, medical conditions, or injuries that limit their mobility and body functionality. At Denville Medical and Sports Rehabilitation Center, our doctors and physical therapists create customized physical therapy programs to help patients reclaim their lives.
When combined with diet and exercise, many patients are able to enjoy activities that they only thought possible with youth.
Some of the most common techniques that physical therapists use to help patients include:
From improper ergonomics at your office desk to injuries sustained in car wrecks, neck pain is a widespread problem. Taking the proper preventative steps to deal with pain provides relief and can prevent the need for surgery or medication.
Generally, there are two kinds of neck pain: chronic and acute. Acute pain shouldn't last for more than six weeks, while chronic pain can last months or even years. Physical therapy is one of the most recommended treatments for neck pain. Treatments often involve reducing neck exercise, strength training, and stretching. If you're suffering from acute or chronic neck pain, it's important to have tests done by a physical therapist to determine the extent of your injury.
Neck pain is caused by a wide range of problems, like:
After identifying the underlying cause of your condition, your physical therapist will develop a comprehensive treatment to address your pain and provide long-term relief.
Back pain is one of the leading causes of disability in America. Back pain can start innocuously as a small muscle ache but can quickly become a more serious problem that disrupts daily life. Like neck pain, the best way to address the issue is to understand the root cause so that surgery is avoided.
Also like neck pain, back pain is either chronic (longer than six weeks) or acute (less than six weeks). Back pain can be caused by a number of events, like lifting a heavy item or simply sitting wrong for too long. To determine the extent of your injuries, you will need one or more diagnostic tests, like X-rays or MRI scans. Once the root cause of your condition is revealed, your physical therapist will work with Denville Medical doctors to create a treatment plan tailored to your body.
Common conditions linked to back pain include:
Experiencing a herniated disc is something most people dread, but many have to endure. Luckily, PT plays a significant role in herniated disc recovery. Physical therapy not only provides immediate pain relief, it teaches patients how to condition their bodies to avoid worse injuries.
At Denville Medical, our physical therapists and doctors have years of experience helping patients rehabilitate from herniated discs. Patients benefit from several time-tested techniques to relieve pain.
After diagnostic testing, active and passive treatments can include:
Do your hips feel uneven or misaligned? Do you suffer from hip stiffness or pain when the weather changes? Are you having trouble getting around the house like you used to? Your hips bear most of your weight, so it's no surprise that hip pain is very common among Americans.
Fortunately, physical therapy has been proven to provide relief for people dealing with acute or chronic hip pain. As with other forms of pain, you will need diagnostic testing to determine the extent of your hip problems.
Some common causes of hip pain include:
Once your hip issues are properly diagnosed, it's time to find relief. Denville Medical & Sports Rehabilitation Center offers several custom solutions, including acupuncture, chiropractic care, and personalized physical therapy.
Like hip pain, knee pain is a common condition in the U.S. and affects millions of people every year. Pain in the knee is caused by many things, including strains, injuries, age, and repetitive trauma. Sometimes, there's no apparent reason for knee pain. When it occurs, you may experience limited knee functionality, like difficulty standing, walking, sitting, and walking up and down stairs.
There are many conditions associated with knee pain, including:
If you notice symptoms like clicking or popping sounds, locking, inflammation, or sharp pains in your knee, physical therapy might be your best bet for relief.
Sometimes, surgery is the only option a patient can choose to alleviate pain from injuries and accidents. When this is the case, physical therapy plays a vital role before and after surgery.
To help you get a better sense of the scope of our physical therapy treatments, we're listing some of the most frequently asked questions that we receive at Denville Medical:
Answer : While some physical therapists rely on outdated techniques to treat patients, our team uses a combination of tried-and-true methods and modern strategies, including:
Answer : During your first visit with our physical therapist, we will complete a series of tests and screenings to establish a baseline for your care. You can expect to complete stability screenings, strength tests, and computerized range of motion tests. These tests ensure your doctor understands how your muscles are functioning. Once complete, your therapist will create a custom treatment plan for your physical therapy, so we can move forward with your care. During your time at Denville Medical, you should expect adjustments to your treatment plan as you make progress.
Answer : We get this question a lot, and we can certainly understand why. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with an exact answer because every patient has different needs relating to their injuries and issues. Your level of stability and functionality depends on your condition, your goals, and your motivation to heal. For acute pain, patients typically experience relief in 2-3 weeks. Patients with forms of chronic pain usually feel optimal results after their first full course of therapy (4-6 weeks). Since our goal is to achieve maximum medical improvement, our doctors continuously monitor your progress and adjust treatment accordingly.
Whether you're dealing with chronic knee pain or acute back pain, relief is in sight. Rather than dangerous medicines and invasive surgeries, we specialize in non-surgical treatments like physical therapy. Our team of physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and primary care doctors have years of experience and work hand-in-hand to give you real pain relief.
If you're sick and tired of living life full of physical pain, now is the time to act. Don't let your body deteriorate – find your new lease on life at Denville Medical and Sports Rehabilitation Center.
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LONG HILL TWP. – Tossing one Styrofoam coffee cup out the car window or into the wastebasket will take at least 500 years to decompose.As a result, about 30 percent of the world’s landfills are made up of Styrofoam. In U.S. landfills alone, approximately 1,369 tons of the material are buried there every day.The public narrative surrounding Styrofoam products has long been that they cannot be recycled and must be thrown in the trash. Foam Cycle is aiming to change that shared notion through its first...
LONG HILL TWP. – Tossing one Styrofoam coffee cup out the car window or into the wastebasket will take at least 500 years to decompose.
As a result, about 30 percent of the world’s landfills are made up of Styrofoam. In U.S. landfills alone, approximately 1,369 tons of the material are buried there every day.
The public narrative surrounding Styrofoam products has long been that they cannot be recycled and must be thrown in the trash. Foam Cycle is aiming to change that shared notion through its first foam packaging recycling system. It is designed to be placed at outdoor municipal recycling drop-off centers.
A Styrofoam recycling machine was funded in this year’s municipal budget under Department of Public Works (DPW) capital expenses. It was installed last week and DPW workers demonstrated the new Foam Cycle machine on Friday, Oct. 14.
Long Hill is the first municipality in Morris County to have the system and only the sixth in the state.
A heap of tarp bags stuffed with Styrofoam was stacked near DPW’s Foam Cycle machine to be recycled. DPW Director Al Gallo said the towering amount was collected in just a week.
Foam Cycle is designed to collect, recycle and repurpose foam packaging waste. Styrofoam is fed into the machine, where blades break it up into bits, then the bits are melted down by an internal hot plate. The condensed foam is then fed out of the machine – similar to an ice cream soft serve machine – into a 30-pound spiraled block.
When Styrofoam is processed through Foam Cycle, 98 percent of the air is released and 2 percent of the polystyrene plastic is extruded, resulting in a 90:1 densification.
This densified polystyrene foam isn’t the finished product, however. It has a very high resale value, and is used to make new products, such as picture frames, RV panels, cruise ship molding and home insulation.
Many of those finished products can then be recycled again, resulting in a closed-loop recycling system.
“It’s a local recycling system that actually provides for a circular economy,” said Foam Cycle company spokeswoman Renee Garrin. “It doesn’t have to go to other countries.”
Foam packaging, otherwise known as Styrofoam, is one of the most plentiful yet least recycled plastics in existence today.
“With packaging waste shifting from retailers to direct home delivery, foam packaging waste is too large to be placed in a curbside container and is not accepted by most single-stream recycling facilities,” a Foam Cycle flier reads.
Clean white styrofoam is the only foam packaging material accepted by Long Hill DPW. Egg cartons, dark color foam, non-washed food service foam, cardboard, foam glued to cardboard, dirty or wet foam, packing peanuts, and foam wrapped in plastic paper are not accepted.
Township Administrator Nancy Malool said at the Wednesday, Oct. 12 Township Committee meeting that Styrofoam collection bags have been placed at the DPW yard, located at 1223 Valley Road in Stirling, and another at Town Hall, near the library entrance.
“Residents actually already filled that one up once and it was already collected by DPW,” Malool said.
The densified polystyrene foam weighs 30 pounds a block. Each filled pallet weighs about 1,500 pounds, according to Gallo.
The Styrofoam is then sold to Princeton Mouldings, a New Brunswick company that recycles polystyrene into picture frame parts, for 25 cents per pound or $600 per ton. Long Hill DPW had previously brought its collected Styrofoam to the DPW in Springfield.
“We’re anticipating that the machine will actually pay for itself when we sell the compressed Styrofoam,” Malool said. “We’re anticipating it will pay for itself in less than three years.”
Malool said neighboring municipalities have already contacted the township to bring their Styrofoam over. “The more we get, the more we process, the more we sell, the faster we pay it off,” she said.
Garrin said she believed that Foam Cycle’s future growth and larger environmental impact will “occur when we make our recycling system known and available to municipal recycling drop-off centers throughout the country.”
Anthony Marrone, the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority District Recycling Coordinator, presented an award to the township DPW for its “commitment to recycling, environment and citizens.”
Gallo said Marrone “helped us out big time” with the township’s recycling and curbside take-it-or-leave-it programs.
Garrin highlighted that Styrofoam is a highly used product, from coffee cups to foam coolers for hospitals and veterinary offices.
“We cannot do without it,” she said. “Let’s show how it can be better recycled.”
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A decade-long battle between a property owner and Cherry Hill Township may be coming to an end.The legal fight involves a massive 18,000-square-foot partially built mansion that was torn down Thursday morning.The Empire State building took a year to build. The Eiffel Tower took two years. And it took roughly seven years to build the Colosseum in Italy."My house will always be here. They're not going to tear down my property," Denise Williams told Action News in an exclusive int...
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A decade-long battle between a property owner and Cherry Hill Township may be coming to an end.
The legal fight involves a massive 18,000-square-foot partially built mansion that was torn down Thursday morning.
The Empire State building took a year to build. The Eiffel Tower took two years. And it took roughly seven years to build the Colosseum in Italy.
"My house will always be here. They're not going to tear down my property," Denise Williams told Action News in an exclusive interview last week.
Her mega-mansion on Winding Drive in Cherry Hill has been under construction for nearly 14 years, and it still wasn't done. There were still no windows, no exterior finish and no basic components.
"It will be over my dead body before I allow the township to tear my property down," she said.
Construction came to a standstill about a decade ago. The 60-year-old blames the real estate market crash around 2010, troubles with contractors and harassment from neighbors and township officials for her construction woes.
"At every turn, the township, instead of working with me, have hindered my efforts," she said.
Cherry Hill Township Attorney William Cook disagrees.
"There has been no effort by Ms. Williams to present us with the necessary documentation that we need to approve further construction for this property," he said.
Cook said the building was unsafe and an eyesore in this wealthy enclave. He said after construction halted in 2012 and Williams' permit extensions expired at the end of 2015, she failed to submit proper architectural and engineering reports and new construction permit applications to meet new building codes.
"We have been more than fair to Ms. Williams in allowing her for well over 10 years to provide us with the necessary approvals for her to complete construction," he added.
Williams gave Action News her response.
"OK, what I say to that is that is just a regurgitation of lies," said Williams.
The battle has played out in the courts. The township said Williams' attempts to prevent demolition ultimately were denied.
And on Thursday, the township ripped down the home, demolishing what Williams says was an estimated million dollars in building costs.
Williams arrived on the scene in the middle of the demolition. She had 24-7 security on site, which did little to prevent the teardown.
The township told Action News the demolition cost $149,000 and it plans to put a lien on the property.
Williams told Action News that although they tore down her home they haven't torn down her resolve. She plans to sue to try and recover her building costs which are now just rubble.
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Morris Hills 37, Kittatinny 36
Hopewell Valley 40, Lawrence 21
No. 13 St. Joseph (Met.) 34, No. 16 South Plainfield 23
Pascack Hills 38, River Dell 18
Shawnee 48, Camden Catholic 22
Haddonfield 54, Collingswood 12
Seton Hall Prep 61, Livingston 7
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Christian Brothers 53, Middletown North 23 - Box Score
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Red Bank Regional 58, Matawan 15 - Box Score
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The recent uproar over a backroom deal to rehire Newark Superintendent Roger León for five more years started a couple of weeks ago with some basic questions that our editorial board sent to him and district attorney Brenda Liss, who reports to León.
We are hearing that he may have won a contract renewal, but we’re unsure if this is accurate, we asked in an email on Jan. 9. “Hoping you can clarify.”
The query continued, If it was renewed, how did that happen? “Did the school board vote on it? If the superintendent’s contract was renewed, on what basis was this done? Was there a positive evaluation of his performance? If his contract was renewed, will there be any public announcement of this fact?”
All we got was silence.
A full week later, after we sent our questions to a few school board members, a woman who serves as the spokesperson for both the superintendent and the board finally sent us a three-sentence answer.
“Yes,” Nancy Deering wrote. “In accordance with its terms, the contract automatically renewed in May. While we do not usually comment on staff performance, of course there was a positive evaluation of his performance.” Then, the district refused to respond to any of our follow-up questions.
The difficulty of getting even that basic information only reinforces this point: The school board and superintendent are operating without transparency.
How can they rehire the schools chief without including parents and the public? You can’t cut community members out of such a major decision in a struggling district where only 13% of kids can do math on grade level.
That’s outrageous, we argued in our editorial last week, and at least one school board member seems to recognize that.
“I think we need to do right by the community and let them speak and let them have their say on what they think should be done,” Crystal Williams said at a tense public meeting on Saturday, after the public learned about this on NJ.com and The Star-Ledger.
She added, “You can’t go around and bypass the community.”
Thursday’s meeting is the board’s final chance to try and slam the brakes on this, we said in a follow-up editorial. Its members may not all have realized that a legally questionable clause in León’s contract says they were supposed to put him on notice back in May that his job isn’t renewed automatically.
That deadline passed, but the board didn’t notify the public, or even put the issue on its agenda. Whether that’s legally valid or not, it’s clear they should have informed the community, and given people a chance to weigh in.
They may not all have known then, but they do now. This is their final chance to fix it – and show the people of Newark that they aren’t going to operate in the dark.
Here are some other compelling issues we wrote about in this week’s Opinion section:
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New Jersey is known for its heritage.While the Italian history in the Garden State is strong, so is the Irish history.With a name like Matt Ryan, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where my ancestors are from.Not too long ago I did one of those Ancestry DNA tests and they were able to narrow down an exact neighborhood in Ireland that had relatives of mine. It's just outside of Dublin.What makes a great Irish pub?First, it's got to be the drinks, right?The Guinness better be cold and plentiful....
New Jersey is known for its heritage.
While the Italian history in the Garden State is strong, so is the Irish history.
With a name like Matt Ryan, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where my ancestors are from.
Not too long ago I did one of those Ancestry DNA tests and they were able to narrow down an exact neighborhood in Ireland that had relatives of mine. It's just outside of Dublin.
What makes a great Irish pub?
First, it's got to be the drinks, right?
The Guinness better be cold and plentiful.
Next is the food.
You know, I've heard so many people call Irish cuisine "boring" or "bland."
It's not everybody's thing, but if done correctly, Irish food is delicious.
Corned beef and cabbage anyone?
Finally, in order for an Irish pub to be great, it must have an authentic atmosphere.
Whether it's a historic pub complete with the original bar, or personality hanging from the walls, a real Irish pub has to have, well, flare.
I couldn't list every single great Irish pub on this list because I'd be here forever.
Instead, I narrowed things down by using location, authenticity, and reviews.
Grab a drink and maybe a bowl of Irish stew, some soda bread, Shepherd's pie, or boiled bacon and cabbage, and check out the absolute best authentic Irish Pubs in the Garden State.
Did I miss your favorite spot? Please let me know about it by sending me a note at [email protected].
If you don't know what you're looking for, you could drive right past St. Stephen's on Rt. 71.
The food and drink at St. Stephen's is phenomenal any time of day, but the brunch is next level.
Downtown Metuchen is such a cool place. Hailey's is right on Main Street and offers traditional Irish fare and entertainment.
Old Oar House is known for their Reuben balls. Interested? They consist of are house made corned beef brisket with sauerkraut and Swiss cheese that’s breaded, then deep fried and served with Russian dressing. Yes, please.
Many of the regulars are locals, but don't be surprised if you see celebs stop in for a beer. This is one of Kelsey Grammer's favorite spots.
